[R] How long does skipping in read.table take

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski
<dimitri.liakhovitski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Gabor,
> thanks a lot - sqldf might be a solution. However, do you know if
> sqldf can also read in .txt files (with different delimiters)?
> The data I am dealing with is "|" - delimited. So, I was using
> read.table(...,sep="|")
> I looked at sqldf description - but did not see examples with .txt.
>

Yes, it accepts sep and the other arguments specifically documented in
?read.csv.sql

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